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Jupiter is shrinking at the rate of about 2 cm each year because the planet radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun.

The Mars One project is seeking to colonize Mars by 2023. The astronaut or colonists will spend the rest of their lives on the red planet.

Scientists have estimated that there are nearly 2 billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone.

There is enough space between the Earth and the moon to fit in the all the rest of the planets in the solar system.

In 1997, 3 men from Yemen tried to sue NASA for invading Mars, claiming they had inherited it from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.

In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.

Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system, even though Neptune is farther from the sun.

It snows metal on Venus.

There is a giant smiley-face shaped crater on Mars.

The sun light needs to pass more and more through the atmosphere.

We can only see planets up to 13.8 billion light years far because the universe is 13.8 billion light years old.

The planet Venus is nearly identical in size to Earth. Their radius differ in size by only 201 miles, with Earth being the larger.

Saturn has a moon called Mimas and it has a crater in it that makes it look like the Death Star.

There is a large hole 150 meters across on Mars, who bottom has not yet been seen.

In 2012, Planet Hunter volunteers found a Neptune-sized planet thousand of light years away that orbits four stars